Ceres, bad things start to happen when you start offing crows ... Four Lions taught me that. Don't doooo eeet
That whole string up some dead 'uns to scare 'em away is a myth! I've often been on a walk and come across 10 or more strung up and heard crows in the trees above me ... s'happened in one of my fave places to pick shrooms.
Also it's normally magpies that do that whole crawing thing early in the morning and wake peeps up .. they sound kinda similar and just as fucking noisy.
Have you seen four lions?
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my bro gets mackrel in the summer. always still popular with him n me dad, altho my dad's fave are Dabs. He made a smoker in the back garden especially for em